Les Misérables of New Orleans: Trap Economics and the Asset Stripping Blues, Part 1

The UN's special rapporteur on adequate housing, Miloon Kothari, and its independent expert on minority issues, Gay McDougall, found federal, state, and local authorities in violation of international moral and legal standards regarding population displacement and racial discrimination and concluded: The denunciation by the UN, and the upcoming New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and the Essence Music Festival, led city leaders to accelerate their enclosure plans by tricking and trapping the remaining homeless: A pack of Kool cigarettes, a can of Budweiser and a box of Boston Baked Beans sat on the dashboard of an unlocked car with the windows rolled down at 1732 Canal St. Somewhere nearby two New Orleans Police Department officers watched and waited for someone to reach into the bait car and snatch the items.